Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi "A. Shaul Zelig HaCohen Rabbi of Dünaburg" to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem. Dünaburg, Latvia [later Dvinsk]. Written in response to a public matter which Rabbi Shmuel Salant requested him to attend to. Further in the letter he criticizes the wording of a sentence which appeared in Rabbi Shmuel Salant's letter in which he says: "Although he does not like me". To this he reacts firmly: "Why should this be between G-d fearing persons… He whose name is Shalom should bring peace to the upper court etc…". The well-known Torah scholar, one of the most prominent Lithuanian Torah leaders, Rabbi Aharon Shaul Zelig HaCohen Gurion-Meyerov (1813-1879), was the son of Rabbi Meir Shalom HaCohen Gurion, disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin and Av Beit Din of Korelicze. From his youth he was renowned as a prodigy. At the age of 4(!) he began to study the Talmud and at 18 was appointed head of the yeshiva in Minsk, a position he held for 24 years. He later served as Av Beit Din of Bryansk and Pruzhany [which earned him the nickname "the Pruzhaner" by which he was known in Torah circles]. From around 1880, he served as Av Beit Din of Dünaburg-Dvinsk (succeeding the well-known Torah scholar Rabbi Leib Zolkind Batlan). He corresponded on halachic matters with Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan and with other Lithuania Torah leaders and his responsa were printed in their books (see Be’er Yitzchak responsa, Yoreh Deah Siman 26-28; Rashei Besamim responsa, to his brother Rabbi Moshe Yoel HaCohen Gurion, Av Beit Din of Anykščiai; Be’er Moshe responsa to his disciple Rabbi Moshe Danishivsky; Mishkan Bezalel responsa, by Rabbi Yehoshua Bezalel, Av Beit Din of Malsch, etc.). Some of his responsa were printed in the Teshuvot LaShoel books (Kovno-Vilna, 1928-1929) and bits of his novellae were printed in the book Magen Shaul (Jerusalem, 1954). Leaf, 21 cm. Approximately 15 handwritten lines. Good condition.